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Show NATIONS DUMP UNDESIRABLES IN AMERICA One Million Unwanted Ones Clamor for Passage to This Side BERLIN, lee. IS. illy the Associated Asso-ciated Press) Emigration to the t'nlted States from Central Europe his reached a stage where it threatens threat-ens to dump Into America nearly 1,-ooo.ooo 1,-ooo.ooo of ihe 'most undesirable peo-"pies peo-"pies of Europe," says an offieiai of the American state department who has be-r. watching the recent exodus with much concern. The emigrants are principally from Kt::.-li and Poland, and large numbers num-bers of them, who are very poor, have been directly assisted with money and advice from America, the correspond ont Was told. Consular offices are swamped with their applications for pas: poru ind steamship accommodations accommoda-tions are inadequate to en ry all who have permits to fail. There Is virtually no check on this movement, which beyond any question, ques-tion, must soon be a most serious problem in America," the correspondent correspond-ent was Infornrod. "An effort has been made to keep out the so-called reds' hut that, too. Is futile tot It ;s Impossible to investigate the applicants carefully enough to exclude undesirables, undesir-ables, "The only thing that ear. be dono, tt seems to me. is a new immigration law, sharply curtailing this business of dumping the down-and-out of Europe upon our BOO res. And, that, too. is going go-ing to be a difficult thing for there Will always be the possibility of discrimination dis-crimination againxt classes that woulo maKe valuable ctizens. ir immigration immigra-tion should be stopped entirely for a f ' w years, say five, we might -wake up I to the situation in America and seek a wax out of the trouble. GRAFT1 RS Rl W ll V!l UST. The government's agents have j been doing their best to meet the l emergency with the machinery of the law, but that is pitiably Inadequate I About all that can be done is to Bend' department of justice agents to New ' York and 'warn' the grafters and the ! more radical promoters of this Imml-I Imml-I Rratin that they muct not resort to , Illegal means. Soma of them who , were reaping rich rewards out of the pas-spurt buSlheSS, pretending to se-I se-I cure proper papers for sums paid in hand, h.-iv.- beep frightened off, but there are others still at work. "Qbe of tiie.se grafters has moved to Uerlin and probably Is doing a thriving thriv-ing business. Nothing can be done ; about it. He is within I ho law. as far SS We sre concerned. He may go out , and collect any amount of fees for ; assisting' immigrants to secure pass- ; ports, and whether he succeeds in get-1 get-1 ting tho papers, which cannot bo held l up if the applicant meets requirements, require-ments, or not. he can keep the money. I The applicant won't 'squeal.' ! "However, such men are only a part of the scheme operating to shift j Immigrants into America." ooo |